Special thanks to Siska & Stijn at the @naturalsciences-be.bsky.social for creating this video & to the @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social for facilitating my research. Additional thank you to @belspo.be for funding this project as part of BRAIN-be 2.0 & all the collaborators/partners associated with LEAP
With one year left to go, I am excited to see how all of this work comes together! 💡
This research combines palaeoclimatic, palaeoenvironmental, and palaeomobility proxies through a collaboration between the @amgc-vub.bsky.social
(AMGC) Research Group at the VUB 🦷, Ghent University🔬, KIK-IRPA 🪵, and the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences 🪨
Exciting LEAP news! 👇
Over the last 3 years, I've worked on my PhD as part of the LEAP project, studying how people & the environment reacted to past climate change events. We were fortunate enough make a video showcasing what we do & it's now available to watch! 📺
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Kg8...
🗣️ New paper! 🗣️
The mobility patterns of the population of Gallo-Roman Tienen (Belgium) are keeping you up at night? Wondering if there is more than mobility reflected in these 87Sr/86Sr results? This is very relatable, and conveniently, I have the right paper for you! It's accessible right there 👇
This weekend our team traveled to Thessaloniki to celebrate the end of the #TEFRA project with two days of exciting conferences! 🔥🔥
📢 New paper alert! 📢
I’m really happy to share our latest publication in AJBA! We explore how sampling cremated petrous parts & teeth helps reconstruct life histories and cremation practices 🔥. You can find our paper through this link: doi.org/10.1002/ajpa... (1/6)
The image shows a simple blue line drawing on a white textured background. There's a figure of a person pointing at a rectangular sign or board that contains text. The text on the board reads: "DO UNTO THE EARTH AS YOU WANT DONE UNTO THE EARTH" - a environmental take on the golden rule. The drawing has a handmade, sketch-like quality with the person and message rendered in blue ink.
On #EarthDay we post about loving our planet while VU Amsterdam cuts its Earth Sciences department. Dismissing 42 earth scientists reveals the gap between stated values and actual priorities. What we fund is what we truly value #RedAardwetenschappen (Image by @thelittlebluedood.bsky.social)
Who wouldn't want to learn more about Roman cremations!?!? Thanks Ellie 😍
Paper Alert 🔥
Want to learn more about Roman cremations?
Can’t sleep because you keep thinking about how the Romans burned their dead?
Then don't miss our latest paper & download it for free here: kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...
The LOCO project is looking for 2 PhDs and 2 Post-docs in (bio-)archaeology, history, geochemistry, and digital humanities. This joint project between VUB, KUL, and UGent looks at the mobility of people, materials, and ideas in the Low Countries. Apply before 30 April 2025 😀
📞 Ypres calling! Special delivery📦🚚
Barbara, Martijn, and Charlotte visited the BAAC depot last Friday and collected the first batch of skeletons from the Sint-Maarten parish in Ypres🦴
But who were these medieval city-dwellers, and where did they come from..?🧪💀
Like for part 2?🤔
#Sr&O #osteology
Great work by @rosaliehermans.bsky.social and team on developing an expanded baseline for NW Europe 🌱🔬🔥
🚨 New paper alert! 🚨
(1/5) Excited to share that our latest paper on dicotyledon phytoliths in NW Europe can now be found here! 🌱🔬 This study fills a gap by documenting and analyzing phytoliths from 74 dicot species.
If you want a free access link to the paper, contact us! 📩
Let’s explore the prehistoric landscapes of the Netherlands: enjoy our open access article www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Fantastic paper on Medieval Ypres. Great job Rachel Spros and the rest of the team!
Today my new paper was published in Plos One. High-resolution Neolithic life history reconstructions using Incremental dentine, bone collagen, and multi-enamel sampling! I'm really pleased with this one
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
@brusselsbioarch.bsky.social @amgc-vub.bsky.social
New paper out by @jbioarch.bsky.social on Legaire Sur (Álava, Spain), a Late Neolithic/Chalcolithic transition burial tomb. This period was a time of notable population expansion, technological advancement, as well as social and economic change.
Isotopic analysis of 🦷& 🦴tells us more 🧵1/6
Media spotlight on the opening of my isotope lab at the Department of Anthropology, Masaryk University - marking a new research center for isotope research and innovation!
www.em.muni.cz/en/science/1...
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Massive congrats to @Christophe-fire.bsky.social on winning a VUB Brussel Excellent PhD Supervisor Award. Your support and enthusiasm mean the 🌍 to the team 🔥
@amgc-vub.bsky.social
So excited to share our accepted manuscript! It sets up a dicot phytolith baseline for NW Europe.
Phytolith researchers working on reference materials know how time-consuming this type of work is 🥵, I hope it will be useful to many.
Happy reading soon and feel free to reach out!
A recap of this year's research with the FWO. Plant sampling in Latvia with the team (inc. @christophe-fire.bsky.social / @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social ). Bring back the summer!
The first Belgium’s strontium isoscape is out now!
Amanda Sengeløv & the team provide the first 604 plant samples from 220 locations, with more data coming soon!
Paper here👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Dataset available on @isoarch.bsky.social 👇https://doi.org/10.48530/ISOARCH.2024.001
Various representations of Hercules strangling the Nemean Lion.
Classical Cat Problems 🐈⬛
What does research on the past bring to people living today? This was discussed live on national radio last Sunday, when @isotopistrachel.bsky.social was interviewed by De Ochtend on VRT Radio 1 about her research on medieval Ypres. Missed it? You find it here: www.vrt.be/vrtmax/luist...
This month @elliestam.bsky.social and @osteolady.bsky.social have been working on the excavation of LBA/EIA cremation graves at Steenwijk in The Netherlands. The cremation depositions will come back to AMGC to be CT scanned and then micro-excavated!
On 01.11, I started my PhD @ Vrije Universiteit Brussel with @amgc-vub.bsky.social & @shoc-vub.bsky.social thanks to funding from the FWO. I will be researching: The first (medieval) city-dwellers; where they came from, their socio-eco background, and how they shaped their urban environments. 💀🏚
Thanks for putting this pack together! I would love to be added 🙂